In which case we also have over 20,000 potential terrorists.
But it’s probably not too far off the British one. We don’t know how large that second number is in the United States. In the UK, there are 3,000 potential terrorists being investigated, but 20,000 others had been “subjects of interest” in the past. Below those 2,000 cases are the larger numbers of potential terrorists who, like Mateen, had the book closed on their investigations. Those 2,000 cases are the tip of a very large iceberg. Mateen’s investigation was wrapped up in the spring of ’14. The FBI investigated Omar Mateen before he carried out the Pulse massacre where the second-generation refugee murdered 49 people, according to his own words, “in the name of Allah, the merciful.”Ī preliminary investigation has to be wrapped up in six months. When an investigation does not pan out, it’s over. Those 2,000 investigations represent active cases. “If that becomes the new normal,” he had said, “that would be hard to keep up.” You also agree to this site’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.īack then, he had said that the FBI was having trouble with the sheer volume of investigations in every state.
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Take our poll – story continues below Completing this poll grants you access to Freedom Outpost updates free of charge. Even assuming that some of the 1,000 “home grown extremists” aren’t Muslim terrorists, that’s a staggering and shocking rise in case numbers. Two years ago, Comey listed around 900 investigations. The other third were mainly from the six countries named in President Trump’s travel pause which left-wing activist judges have unconstitutionally halted.
Two-thirds of the refugee terrorists were from Iraq. 300 from that 2,000 had come to America as refugees. Another 1,000 had “some contact with foreign terrorists”. 1,000 of those came from “home grown violent extremism” with no evidence of contact with foreign terrorists. While the media parsed every Comey hiccup to bolster its election conspiracy theories, it ignored that number.Ĭomey stated that there were around 2,000 terrorism investigations. That was the most overlooked revelation to come from the testimony of the former FBI director.